Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Athlone in France. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
The Marquis de St Ruth (General Charles Chalmont), the French Jacobite general, moved too slowly to save Athlone, as he had to gather his troops from their quarters and raise new ones from rapparee bands and the levies of Irish landowners
Provenance
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